Game 18: Stony Brook (14-3, 2-0 America East) vs. New Hampshire (3-12, 1-1 America East)
LOCATION	Island Federal Arena | Stony Brook, N.Y.
DATE | TIME	Saturday, January 12 | 7 p.m.
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The Stony Brook men's basketball team plays its second consecutive home game on Saturday night, hosting New Hampshire for a 7 p.m. tip at Island Federal Arena.
 
The Seawolves are coming off a 59-46 victory over Binghamton on Wednesday night in which sophomore Jeff Otchere (Bronx, N.Y.) blocked seven shots and redshirt-junior Akwasi Yeboah (Chigwell, England) recorded a double double with 13 points and 13 rebounds.
 
THE OPPONENT
New Hampshire enters the weekend with a 1-1 conference record after a 68-64 win over UMass Lowell on Wednesday night in Durham, N.H. The Wildcats lost their conference opener to Binghamton 69-58. Josh Hopkins led the way for UNH, scoring 19 points while making three shots from outside. Jayden Martinez recorded a double-double, scoring 12 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
 
Hopkins comes into Saturday as the Wildcats' leading scorer, scoring 12.2 points per game, with Jordan Reed with the other double-figure scorer at 10.6 a game. The Wildcats make the most three-pointers per game in the league, averaging 9.4 makes per contest. They are second in the America East in turnovers, giving it up 11.8 times per game.
 
THE SERIES
Stony Brook has won 19 of the 36 meetings between the squads in a series that dates back to 2000. The Seawolves won seven games in a row from 2010-11 to 2012-13 and have taken 13 of the last 16 games.

NO, NO, NO-TCHERE
Sophomore Jeff Otchere (Bronx, N.Y.) blocked seven Binghamton shots on Wednesday night, including five in the first half of the Seawolves' win over the Bearcats. That is the fourth-most blocks by a Seawolves player in the team's Division I history. The Bronx, N.Y. native is one of 24 players in the country to have recorded seven blocks in a game this season, with the NCAA-high being 10.
 
DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Seawolves held Binghamton to 46 points in a win on Wednesday night, the first time a Stony Brook defense held a team under 50 points since the 2015-16 campaign when they kept Hartford to 43 points. In this defensive contest, the Bearcats scored just 15 points in the first half thanks to the Seawolves defense, the lowest first-half total for an America East team since Albany held UMBC to 12 last season.
 
DOUBLE THE FUN
Redshirt-junior Akwasi Yeboah (Chigwell, England) recorded his fourth double-double of the season and 10th of his career on Wednesday, scoring 13 points and grabbing 13 rebounds in the win over Binghamton. The England native has scored double figures in 15 of the 17 games this season and eclipsed the 20-point mark in seven games this year.
 
SHOOTERS SHOOT
Freshman Miles Latimer (Fairfax, Va.) has provided a shooting spark to the Seawolves offense, firing at a 43.2 percent clip from beyond the arc. That number would be good for top of the league, but the Fairfax, Va. native is seven makes short of the qualification of 2.5 per game. He has also been getting it done at the free throw line during this streak of nine double-figure scoring games in 10 tries, making 82.5 percent of his attempts from the charity stripe since the start 
of December.
 
3 > 2
The recent uptick on offense has been aided by a long-ball assault for the Seawolves. As a team, Stony Brook has made 43 threes in its last six games. Overall, Stony Brook is shooting 35.2 percent from beyond the 20.75-foot arc. That number sits second in the America East behind Hartford's 35.3 percent clip.
 
PERFECTION
Sophomore Andrew Garcia (Harlem, N.Y.) made Stony Brook program history Saturday night, making all nine of his shots en route to a career-high 24 points. That is the most makes without a miss in basketball history, besting Jameel Warney's 8-for-8 outing during the 2012 season. He is one of 18 players in the country this season to attempt nine or more shots and make them all and is one of nine players to go exactly 9-for-9 in a game. 
 
HELP ME, HELP YOU
Senior Jaron Cornish (Abaco, Bahamas) enters conference play inside the top six in two passing categories in the America East. He currently sits fifth in the league in assist-turnover ratio, recording 1.7 assists for every cough-up. Abaco's Own is also averaging 3.4 assists per game, good for sixth in the league and is on pace to beat his 77 last season.
 
CRAZY YOUNGSTERS
Stony Brook's "Experience" according to KenPom is 1.20, or the second-youngest team in the America East and inside the Top 50 for youngest teams in the country. The youngsters came up big in Iowa, with freshman Jules Moor (Houston, Texas) scoring 14 points, grabbing seven rebounds and recording four steals, while classmate Miles Latimer (Fairfax, Va.) finished the night with 11 points and eight rebounds.
 
UP NEXT
After the Wednesday bye, the Seawolves head up north to take on Maine on Saturday afternoon at the Cross Insurance Center.